Caring for Your Cheeses

For optimal storage, keep your cheeses wrapped in the paper or packaging in which they were delivered. Our paper is specially designed to allow the cheeses to breathe and retain moisture.

The best place to store your cheese is in a cool, damp place such as a wine cellar, larder or wine cabinet, otherwise in the vegetable drawer of your refrigerator.

Try to consume your cheeses within days of receiving them so that you can enjoy them at peak flavor, particularly the softer types. If properly stored, most cheeses will last several weeks. As a general rule, aged hard cheeses last longer than softer, fresher types.

Rewrap left over cheese in the paper or packaging it came in and store as aforementioned.

If you have thrown away your paper or packaging or if it has been torn, follow these guidelines:

• Bloomy rind, tommes and cheeses with harder and drier rinds, wrap only the cut surface in light weight plastic, leaving the rind exposed so the cheese can breathe.
• Blue cheeses should be wrapped securely in foil.
• Washed rind cheeses should be wrapped in wax paper or grease proof paper.
• Small cheeses, a goat's milk crottin, for example, should also be wrapped in wax paper or grease proof paper.
• Soft cheeses store well in waxed paper or sealed containers.